Nomenclature (1)

  • Tropicophyllum uirapuru Mendes & Rafael, 2025: 177.

    Holotype; male; 64c8cb7c-2904-4839-9d75-ec52b043ba2d; deposited at: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA); Brazil: Amazonas: Rio Urucu, Igarapé Marta–3

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Mendes, D.M.de M. & Rafael, J.A. (2025) Review of Anapolisia Piza, 1980 and Tropicophyllum Koçak & Kemal, 2008 stat. rev. (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Microcentrini). Zootaxa, 5564(1), 1–184. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5564.1.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The epithet uirapuru (wyra + purú) comes from the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi and is the popular name given to a group of Amazonian birds from the Troglodytidae, iconic for their complex song and therefore present in several Amazonian legends.

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